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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
4664420 UGX ($1204 USD)
access_time 8 months ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Recipient is planning to relocate by the end of the year but is waiting upon funds
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GD does good by delivering what it promises but needs to ensure everyone in the selected areas benefit
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Bought a plot of land
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2339550 UGX ($614 USD)
access_time 10 months ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
The recipient has at home then saw a mobile money message. I felt happy and immediately went to the mobile money agent and withdrew the money
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I have bought a cow and am hopefully in the nearby future I will sell off and buy land
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Livestock
Enrolled
access_time almost 2 years ago
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
With this transfer, I plan to buy a plot of land at USD 1052 in Bushika Town Council which is a flat area and build a house worthy USD 771 so that we can also start living happily without worries that landslides like any other person who is living good good life.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In the last six months, I felt very happy when world vision gave me 396000 Ugshs which helped me and my family members to meet basic needs like food, soap, sugar, bed, blanket, bed sheets. Indeed this made me very happy because I was badly.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I currently face a challenge of landslides and water that comes from underground during rainy season and affect the house which deny a comfortable stay in such a house.
I am also affected by poverty which has hindered me to relocate from such a dangerous place to a safer place where we can stay conformably and also carry out cultivation so that we can be in position to get food for our people in plenty.
